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usance
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun usance has 3 senses
- usance(n = noun.time) Array - the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange); Array is a kind of period, period of time, time period
- usance(n = noun.process) consumption, economic consumption, use, use of goods and services - (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily" has particulars: conspicuous consumption
- usance(n = noun.act) custom, usage - accepted or habitual practice; Array is a kind of pattern, practice, survival
is a kind of demand
has particulars: americanism, anglicism, britishism, consuetude, couvade, germanism, habit, use, hijab, rite, ritual
Derived form verb use5
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Use; usage; employment. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Custom; practice; usage. Gower. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Interest paid for money; usury. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The time, fixed variously by the usage between different countries, when a bill of exchange is payable; as, a bill drawn on London at one usance, or at double usance. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
usance, n. the time allowed by commercial usage for the payment of foreign bills of exchange.
Etymology
ME f. OF (as USE)
ROGET THESAURUS
usance
Debt
N debt, obligation, liability, indebtment, debit, score, bill, check, account (credit), arrears, deferred payment, deficit, default, insolvency, bad debt, interest, premium, usance, usury, floating debt, floating capital, debtor, debitor, mortgagor, defaulter, borrower, indebted, liable, chargeable, answerable for, in debt, in embarrassed circumstances, in difficulties, incumbered, involved, involved in debt, plunged in debt, deep in debt, over one's head in debt, over head and ears in debt, deeply involved, fast tied up, insolvent, minus, out of pocket, unpaid, unrequited, unrewarded, owing, due, in arrear, outstanding, past due, aes alienum debitorem leve gravius inimicum facit, neither a borrower nor a lender be.
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